Example sentences of "[verb] how [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as we can after the next election , we must consider how we are able to carry out those essential functions if the European union is to be democratically accountable . |
| 2 | My grandmother is a keen birdwatcher and she 'd already introduced me to a lot of the different birds that visited her bird-table , telling me what they ate and showing me their nests and explaining how they were made and what they were made of . |
| 3 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 4 | They have had to explain why patients can sometimes provide vivid descriptions of their own resuscitation , explaining how it was done , who was involved and even what was said . |
| 5 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
| 6 | One wonders how he was capable of sustaining his own sexual performance . |
| 7 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 8 | The scribe knows that they have a lot more to say and wonders how it is to be fitted into 3000 words . |
| 9 | It consists of the bass-parts for each choir , placed one above the other , with bar-lines but no text or figures to indicate how he was to fill out the bass , only an occasional flat or sharp above the notes ; when in the Masses a movement begins in a higher part only , this is shown in the organ part ; but when the higher voices sing without the bass , the organ part is marked ‘ tacet ’ or ‘ non est hic ’ . |
| 10 | In particular , it is worth examining earlier occasions when change was handled effectively and then explore how it was done and what skills and methods were used . |
| 11 | With the help of the European Commission Pilot Project : Community Languages in the Secondary Curriculum , we therefore conducted a second survey amongst a sample of LEA coordinators of community language provision in order to discover how they were attempting to meet locally perceived needs : thirteen replies were received . |
| 12 | He was concerned to discover how they were winning lucrative car parking contracts and whether there was a leak of information from his own company . |
| 13 | ‘ I wished to discover how it was done — and where . |
| 14 | So unusual was this setup that during its early days we even had dealers contacting us to discover how it was being done ! |
| 15 | There was no need to rush about trying to discover how it was done . |
| 16 | ( Diners say how they 're enjoying themselves ) The hospitality business boomed in the 1980s and hit a peak in 1989-90 . |
| 17 | She 'd heard the landlady say how it was all over now bar the shouting . |
| 18 | Erm , good thing is to actually say , to define the terms of the question and say how you 're gon na answer them . |
| 19 | I want information , Millet , I want to know how he 's going to cope . |
| 20 | I want to know how he 's doing in general and where he needs a bit of encouragement . |
| 21 | ‘ I know that Ella and Dimity — everyone in fact — will want to know how he is and would like to call , but they do n't wish to intrude at a time like this . |
| 22 | Colt would have liked his father to know how he was spending the next few days . |
| 23 | Vananu 's brother Meir Vananu told the Davar newspaper that the court had " rejected my brother 's request to allow the public to know how he was brought to Israel " . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like to know how you 're going to go about it , Mother . ’ |
| 25 | If you want to know how you 're doing with the other person , you need to ask . |
| 26 | Yeah right , so er yeah so it 's anyway it 's it 's difficult to know how you 're gon na get it but er I wish you , I wish you luck in , in , in doing so . |
| 27 | the right to know how you are doing ( feedback ) |
| 28 | Despite the fact that it is a basic right to know how you are doing , most people are starved of feedback ( see page 63 ) and may even resent it when they get it . |
| 29 | I beg you will write to me after you get this ’ ; ‘ Pray send a line … as I should like to know how you are going on , — as I do n't forget I have owed sundry dinners to your lithographic birds . ’ |
| 30 | I got your letter last evening , as I was about to write to you : thank you for it : — I wanted to know how you were going on . |